New profile (23.0) split/merged usr question

pizza-rat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Dec 2022 Posts: 81

Saw this in eselect news today, and haven't followed through with the update yet. I believe I'm currently on 17.1, and split-usr desktop. When I upgrade, would it be best to stay with split, or would switching to merged (following the intructions of upgrading to the new split-usr profile first, then switching) be the better choice going forward?

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1392 Location: Germany

grknight · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Feb 2015 Posts: 1660

split-usr will be supported on OpenRC for the foreseeable future. It is not required to use merged-usr at this time.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:10 pm Post subject:

pizza-rat,

split-user to merged-user and the 17.1 to 23.0 upgrade are separate steps.

Only systemd users must do the split-user to merged-user change before the the 17.1 to 23.0 update, as there are no 23.0/split-user profiles for systemd.
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pizza-rat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Dec 2022 Posts: 81

Thank you all. Unless I have something to gain from merged-usr I'll just stick to split for the time being, then

pepoluan · Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:05 am Post subject:

pizza-rat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Dec 2022 Posts: 81